“自分を諦めない”
ゲイであることで母に捨てられ、16歳から10年間ホームレス生活を送っていた青年・フレンチ（ジェレミー・ポープ）。どこにも居場所を許されず、自らの存在意義を追い求める彼は、生きるためのたったひとつの選択肢と信じて海兵隊への入隊を志願する。だが、訓練初日から教官の過酷なしごきに遭い、さらにゲイであることが周囲に知れ渡るや否や激しい差別にさらされてしまう……。理不尽な日々に幾度も心が折れそうになりながらもその都度自らを奮い立たせ、毅然と暴力と憎悪に立ち向かうフレンチ。僕が僕のままで在るために、自分の意志でここに居る――。孤立を恐れず、同時に決して他者を見限らない彼の信念は、徐々に周囲の意識を変えていく。
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監督: Elegance Bratton
脚本: Elegance Bratton
音楽: Avey Tare / Panda Bear
制作: Chester Algernal Gordon / Effie Brown / Regina K. Scully
撮影監督: Lachlan Milne
制作会社: Freedom Principle / Gamechanger Films / A24
"French" (Jeremy Pope) is an itinerant gay man who, estranged from his prison office mother "Inez" (Gabrielle Union), has concluded that the only way to stop himself becoming subsumed into an underworld of drugs, disease and most likely death, is to join the US Marines. Having failed at just about everything else, his mother is somewhat sceptical, but to bootcamp he goes where he encounters the stereotypically brutish gunnery sergeant-major "Laws" (Bokeem Woodbine). It's all based on a true story directed and adapted from his own story by Elegance Bratton, so jeopardy here there isn't. That said, Pope and Woodbine are both on good form as the former runs the gamut of a tough training regime coupled with a prejudice against his sexuality that proves distinctly dangerous. His trainer offers him nothing by way of support or sympathy, intent on instilling the most primitive of "survival of the fittest" mentalities amongst all of his recruits. It is a little procedural, but it's still an interesting tale from a man who resisted the temptations to jack it all in - and sends a clear message of perseverance and determination that does resonate to a certain, predictable, extent. Essentially, though, it's a television movie that doesn't really need a cinema screening and though watchable and important, it isn't a story that will linger in the memory for long afterwards, I'm afraid.
